Founded in 1978, MTDC is Canada's oldest dance company. The central artistic mandate embodies the vision of the Company’s functioning over a whole range of Indian dance, traditional and contemporary,involving creation of new works, presenting home seasons and touring. MTDC Dance Lab is dedicated to nurturing the art form in a variety of ways involving imaginative initiatives and bold experiments. The company’s lecture and demonstration series, Inside/Outside Series, invites artists working in diverse art forms to examine and understand the nature of creative processes in interrelated disciplines. The company also nurtures the dancers by presenting them in an intimate performance space of our studio through MTDC Studio Series. In 2013, company's artistic director, Menaka Thakkar was awarded with Governor General's Performing arts award for Lifetime Achievement in Dance. In continuation to Menaka's pledge to Governor General at the time of award, the company has now taken initiatives to make arts more accessible and affordable by live streaming its popular productions.